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Just Cause 4 review

Thursday, 13 December 2018 14:12
Written by Miklós Szecsei
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Hey, it’s that guy Rico! Rico Rodriguez! The dictatorship-toppling one man army! He’s back (baby!) to topple more dictators! He’s brought an even crazier collection of weapons and chaotic gadgets created for the sole purpose of wanton destruction! And there are weather effects this time like tornadoes and electrical storms! And there’s this gun that SHOOTS GUSTS OF WIND so you can basically catapult dudes into explosions! But not before you’ve tethered those dudes to red barrels and helium balloons that’ll also explode to make the first explosion more explosion-ey! DOUBLE EXPLOSIONS!

It sounds great! Except that it isn’t and honestly it all gets tedious fast thanks to a ton of issues. Boo.

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Red Dead Redemption 2 review

Wednesday, 28 November 2018 17:49
Written by Tarryn van der Byl
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It is 1899, and the Old West is riding off into a hazy, metaphorical sunset as the new prospects of the American Dream – iron gantries, warehouses, ladies’ parasols, and other accoutrements of colonial hubris – blight the horizon, gaudy pretensions to polite society a flimsy facade built upon broken treaties and broken backs.

This is no place for a man like Arthur Morgan. Cue rattlesnake sound effects.

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Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 SUPER-MEGA-ULTRA! review

Tuesday, 27 November 2018 08:48
Written by NAG
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Editor’s note: Yes, we know, this review is INCREDIBLY late. WE’RE SORRY. Except we’re only kind of sorry, because here’s the thing:

Shortly after the launch of CODBLOPS 4, the game’s new Blackout mode completely fell over in certain regions, including our own. As in, no-one in South Africa could access Blackout at all for a few weeks. And given that Blackout is Call of Duty’s first rodeo with battle royale, it’s a Pretty Big Deal. So! We decided to hold off on reviewing the game (i.e. telling you whether or not it’s worthy of your cash) until we could be absolutely sure that Blackout is stable again. It felt wrong to tell you whether or not you should spend your hard-earned moneys on the game when one third of its game modes wasn’t exactly functional.

We’re pretty sure Blackout is all good now though, and local players can finally get into games of this new mode. So, like, yay! HERE, HAVE A REVIEW.

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Hitman 2 review

Thursday, 22 November 2018 11:36
Written by Matthew Vice
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My mom was convinced up until my mid-20s that video games would turn me into a serial killer – and that was with the low-poly quality of games on the PS1 and PS2. I can only imagine what she’d have thought if she’d seen me playing a game of Hitman 2’s graphical fidelity back then. But it’s okay, mom. I’m not a serial killer. Not in real life, anyway.

Not yet.

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Fallout 76 review

Wednesday, 21 November 2018 12:10
Written by Matthew Vice
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The first thing you should know before reading this review is that I’m almost entirely a single-player gamer. I prefer to be left alone when I’m gaming, and the same goes for online connectivity. So if a game description includes “always online” or “multiplayer only”, I lose interest almost immediately. The reason I bring this up is to prime you with the fact that I know next to nothing about MMOs or online games in general – so if there is some specific jargon I’m not using or some obvious concern it didn’t occur to me to address, I hope you’ll be able to excuse my ignorance. I’m just going to talk about the game as I see it.

So, given my single-player-focused proclivities, why did I decide to play Fallout 76? Mostly morbid curiosity to be honest, and I’m one of those subhuman deviants who likes Fallout 4, to which 76 bears a close resemblance, using the same engine and many of the same assets. And I’m fan of the Fallout series in general, so if I were ever going to try a multiplayer-focused game, it may as well be this one.

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